From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can't make use of swap memory in 2.6.7-bk19
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 01:20:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040708012005.6232a781.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2fz82hq8c.fsf@telia.com>
Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> wrote:
>
> Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> writes:
>
> > Peter Osterlund wrote:
> > > I created a test program that allocates a 300MB buffer and writes to
> > > all bytes sequentially. On my computer, which has 256MB RAM and 512MB
> > > swap, the program gets OOM killed after dirtying about 140-180MB, and
> > > the kernel reports:
> > >
> >
> > Someone hand me a paper bag... Peter, can you give this patch a try?
>
> Doesn't help. My test program still fails in the same way.
>
Something odd is happening - I've run that testcase in various shapes and
forms a huge number of times.
What filesystems are in use? Is there anything unusual about the setup?
Do earlier 2.6 kernels exhibit the same problem? Is something wrong with
the disk system?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-08 8:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-08 1:36 Can't make use of swap memory in 2.6.7-bk19 Peter Osterlund
2004-07-08 1:43 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-08 2:14 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-08 2:30 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-08 12:59 ` Peter Osterlund
2004-07-08 19:39 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-09 0:57 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-09 1:53 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-09 2:06 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-09 2:09 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-09 2:12 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-09 2:50 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-09 4:51 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-09 2:14 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-08 8:12 ` Peter Osterlund
2004-07-08 8:20 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-07-08 8:23 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-08 9:30 ` Peter Osterlund
2004-07-14 5:20 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-14 10:39 ` Peter Osterlund
2004-07-14 10:57 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-14 12:55 ` Peter Osterlund
2004-07-14 13:22 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-14 20:00 ` Peter Osterlund
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